{"id":3678,"date":"2013-02-19T22:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2013-02-19T22:35:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:35:48","slug":"mfdj021913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=3678","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 19, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Calm Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the lifeboats of the doomed Titanic were being launched on April 14, 1912, some passengers resisted the urge to panic. \u00a0Isidor and Ida Straus came near lifeboat 8 as it was being loaded. \u00a0Mr. \u00a0Straus declared he would not get in until all women and children had been safely taken off the boat. \u00a0Mrs. \u00a0Straus then refused to leave her husband&#8217;s side, stating, &#8220;We have been living together for many years, and where you go, I go.&#8221; \u00a0After giving her fur coat to her maid, who descended in the boat, she and her husband sat down in steamer chairs and calmly watched as the lifeboats filled. \u00a0Benjamin Guggenheim and his manservant, Victor Giglio, removed their life jackets and changed into elegant evening clothes before returning to the deck. \u00a0He told a steward, &#8220;I think there is grave doubt that the men will get off. \u00a0I am willing to remain and play the man&#8217;s game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. \u00a0I won&#8217;t die here like a beast. \u00a0Tell my wife&#8230; I played the game out straight and to the end. \u00a0No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.&#8221; \u00a0Major Butt and Frank Millet chose to retire to the first-class smoking room, where they sat at a table and played a final hand of cards before going their own way. \u00a0All would perish, along with more than 1,500 others.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765106477\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theasylumeclecti&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0765106477\">Titanic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Major Butt. \u00a0Snicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Calm Yet Truly Morbid Fact! As the lifeboats of the doomed Titanic were being launched on April 14, 1912, some passengers resisted the urge to panic. \u00a0Isidor and Ida Straus came near lifeboat 8 as it was being loaded. \u00a0Mr. \u00a0Straus declared he would not get in until all women and children had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}